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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9611	'Abstract' nowadays means outside space and time, not concrete, not physical [Brown,JR]

9609	The older sense of 'abstract' is where 'redness' or 'group' is abstracted from particulars [Brown,JR]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]